On 21st June 2017, Birmingham City University’s Centre for the Study of Practice and Culture in Education (CSPACE) will host its second one-day Reimagining Further Education Conference at its City Centre Campus (Curzon Building), located in the centre of Birmingham. The conference theme recognises the power of transformational education to empower teachers, learners and their…
Month: March 2017
Lucy: SEN Manager and teacher
Lucy is a manager for SEN provision in a college near Manchester. The college runs courses for students with a diverse range of special educational needs. These courses provide progression for learners into mainstream and vocational courses. An important aspect of these courses is the employment placement component where learners get hands on experience…
Claire: Psychology teacher
Claire is a Psychology teacher in a further education college. Claire sees transformative learning as an integral aspect of her pedagogical approach. She is interested in researching the potential gains to be had from researching the conditions that give rise to transformative educational experiences. In the longer term,…
Kate: Dance teacher
Kate teaches Dance in an FE college. Here, she recounts her journey as a learner coming from a difficult background and overcoming significant personal barriers before rediscovering a positive learning identity. This inspirational story illustrates how further education can be a key ingredient in mending damaged lives and restoring hope,…
Reimagining Further Education Conference: Transformation
On 21st June 2017, Birmingham City University’s Centre for the Study of Practice and Culture in Education (CSPACE) will host its second one-day Reimagining Further Education Conference at its City Centre Campus (Curzon Building), located in the centre of Birmingham. After a fantastic event last year, this summer, the theme is transformative education. The conference…
Access to HE delivered in Further Education helps people become artists and designers
People who have dreams or aspirations about becoming artists, designers, film makers or craftspeople sometimes are dissuaded from this. The barriers to fulfilling these dreams may seem insurmountable; in some cases parents want their children to study for a trade in an industry that seems less precarious than the arts. The class, gender and race…
International Women’s Day, 8 March 2017
International Women’s Day provides a real opportunity to expose the vital transformative engine of further education in addressing inequality and barriers in women’s lives. Their stories of courage, strength and hope flow into their families, their local and wider communities. These women’s voices, heard now so clearly and yet often marginalised and silenced, remind us…
Sharing stories of transformation
Sharing Adams story with a group of all boys gave them something that they could identify with as they had followed a similar pathway. The group were able to reflect on their own journeys and how much they had progressed since joining college. Sharing parts of my own journey and Marie’s with a group of…
Chaima: an inspirational woman’s story
Chaima grew up in Oldham. In this video she describes her experience of schooling there and how it ended in disillusion and low level qualifications. Entering further education, Chaima rediscovered her learning identity and, with the help of teachers who believed in her, worked steadily until she gained entry to Higher Education. Further Education was…